The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie’s congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
Actor: George Siegmann Henry B. Walthall Joseph Henabery Lillian Gish Mae Marsh Mary Alden Miriam Cooper Ralph Lewis Wallace Reid Walter Long
Director: Allan Dwan, Baron von Winther, Christy Cabanne, D. W. Griffith, Donald Crisp, Elmer Clifton, Erich von Stroheim, Fred Hamer, Henry B. Walthall, Herbert Sutch, Howard Gaye, Jack Conway, Joseph Henabery, Monte Blue, Raoul Walsh, Robert Harron, Thomas E. O'Brien, Tom Wilson, W.S. Van Dyke
Country: USA
